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0 ran out of time for the ridiculous. that does it for us. early start begins right now. have a great day. teams of torture. new details revealed how ariel castro tortured imprisoned three women in cleveland. this, as he gets ready to speak before a judge and face one of his victims in court. big brother is watching. new information detailing the government s once-secret spying program and how closely the nsa can monitor you without a warrant. game over for a-rod? the yankees slugger reportedly negotiating a settlement. how long he could be forced to sit out. long, long. long time. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m michael pereira. up first today, it s sentencing day for ariel castro, the ohio man who kept three women imprisoned in his home for at least a decade. castro pleaded guilty last week to more than 090 counts including murder and kidnapping. it was a deal that spared him a possible death sentence and we re expected to hear from one of castro s victims. as new details emerge from this decade of horror. reporter: prosecutors failed a sentencing memorandum thursday detailing how he kidnapped amanda berry, gina dejesus and the abuse they endured. they kept a diary. castro also admitted to having the girls chained by their ankles with only one meal a day, showering infrequently. while he had sexual lu assaulted them. he said that he had other victims but some of them made it home and others had not. castro pleaded guilty to more than 900 counts including kidnapping, rape and murder. i may have been through hell and back, but i m stronger enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face. reporter: sources say that knight will likely make an impact statement in court. face to face with her captor for the first time in three months. sometimes the sentencing process is a form of can that are this for the victim of the crime. reporter: castro, too, will finally share his side and apologize for his victims. michelle knight thanking the cleveland police department. with this note. pamela brown, cnn, cleveland. alex rodriguez may be ready to cut a deal, according to espn, the yankees slugger s representatives are negotiating a settlement with major league baseball that could land him a lengthy essentisuspension. several other players are expected to be suspended for the use of p.e.d.s. announcement could come as early as friday. big week in baseball. later today, president obama meets with a group of lawmakers who don t like what s happening in the nsa, the white house is defending the agency s controversial domestic surveillance programs even as new information leaks about the nsa s ability to monitor everything you do online. reporter: the obama administration under attack for its surveillance programs. national security agency director keith alexander heckled. i don t trust you. i haven t lied to congress. reporter: while congress questions is the nsa spying on us? and who is accountable for edward snowden s leaks? anyone offered to resign from this? reporter: the administration declassified more documents in an effort to show that the surveillance is vital to national security even as a new article by glenn greenwald unveiled new information from snowden. greenwald said it proves that nsa can see everything you can do. with no overnight, no supervision, prior to search, enter an ip address, they can discover your internet connections. i sitting at my desk certainly had the authority to wiretap anyone. the more it sounds like hollywood the less likely it is to be true. the idea you can sit at your desk i want to wiretap joe lewis and peck at the computer and sudden lly hear my phone calls. reporter: the implication that nsa collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false. the nsa says that there are multiple checks and balances to make sure its analysts aren t inappropriately getting into those databases. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. we are also learning that the united states is by far the world leader when it comes to requests for information about personal twitter accounts, now according to twitter the obama administration targeted over 1300 accounts during the first six months of this year, the company said that most of the inquiries were for e-mail and i.p. addresses. 78% of those requests coming from the u.s. government. . good news for students and their parents. the house giving overwhelming approval to recent doubling of federal student loans. the compromise measure does tie interest rates on student loans to the financial markets. the bill goes to the president. he s expected to sign it. if cnn can find him, why can t the u.s. government, republican lawmakers demanding answers from the fbi after cnn was able to locate and interview a suspected ring leader from the u.s. in benghazi. is willing to meet with the fbi if he s asked. after the long-delayed middle east peace talks started, john kerry is making his first trip to pakistan. he s expected to meet with civilian leaders. one hot topic is sure to be the controversy over u.s. drone attacks inside pakistan. egypt s military-backed government to end sit-ins. the egyptian government calling the supporter of disposed mohamed morsi party. new outbreak of violence in turkey s capital. several hundred people were blocked from marching in support of a teenaged boy who s in a coma after being hit in the head. an oil stain staining the beaches of thailand. it came from a leak in a pipeline operated, about 600 soldiers, volunteers and workers are helping with the cleanup. they re hoping to have all of the oil removed from the beaches and removed reopened by the end of the weekend zbut, i mean, that is such a mess and it s going to have an effect on the wildlife. halli burks, rton will plead guilty to the gulf oil spill. 11 workers died in the accident and millions gallons of oil spilled into the gulf of mexico. hurricane gill gaining strength, far off the tip of southern california right now. we re tracking the storm. where is gill going? i ll show you that. it s strengthening, which is interesting, because flossie didn t become a hurricane. gill is already a hurricane. you can see gil here. behind it, 50% chance for a tropical storm to form behind that. that s definitely something we ll be watching. where is it going? this is pretty key. now, watch, if gil goes a little bit to the north, we re going into cooler waters, it will most likely weaken. if it moves farther to the south, it strengthens. we want it to move to the south because we have hawaii a little to the north. and also, more chances for rain, the sunshine is gone, pretty much today if you re hanging anywhere from pennsylvania all of the way through jersey and even the southeast. heavy amounts. pennsylvania and jersey. possibly 1 to 2 inches of rain. very spotty. don t worry, the weekend looks a hint better for a day until we get more rain. all right, thank you. tennessee man is on the verge of setting quite an incredible endurance record. check this out, mr. berman. he s been living under water. since saturday. he needs to keep it up until saturday in order to break the previous record of 120 hours under water. the most difficult part is eating and drinking while submerged. surprisingly he s been sleeping pretty well. i slept pretty well. i m in the world s largest bed. you did see he has a tv underwater with him to keep him occupied. maybe he s watching right now. if you re tweeting under water, please tweet us. good morning, underwater man. i have some questions. we hope you watch early start. bubble, bubble. you re fluent. i speak underwater language. coming up, george zimmerman pulled over and packing heat. why the man had a run-in with the law. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm.everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? 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